Quotes from book
The Conduct of Life

Name: The Conduct of Life
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Conduct of Life is a collection of essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson published in 1860 and revised in 1876. In this volume, Emerson sets out to answer "the question of the times:" "How shall I live?" It is composed of nine essays, each preceded by a poem. These nine essays are largely based on lectures Emerson held throughout the country, including for a young, mercantile audience in the lyceums of the Midwestern boomtowns of the 1850s.The Conduct of Life has been named as both one of Emerson's best works and one of his worst. It was one of Emerson's most successful publications and has been identified as a source of influence for a number of writers, including Friedrich Nietzsche.

“Money often costs too much.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson book The Conduct of Life

The Conduct of Life, Chapter 3, “Wealth,” p. 107

“People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson book The Conduct of Life

The Conduct of Life, Chapter 6, “Worship,” p. 214
1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860)

“Leave this hypocritical prating about the masses. Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson book The Conduct of Life

The Conduct of Life, Chapter 7, “Considerations by the Way,” Complete Works (1883), vol. 6, p. 237

“I am not much an advocate for travelling, and I observe that men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own, and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places. For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home? I have been quoted as saying captious things about travel; but I mean to do justice. …. He that does not fill a place at home, cannot abroad. He only goes there to hide his insignificance in a larger crowd. You do not think you will find anything there which you have not seen at home? The stuff of all countries is just the same. Do you suppose there is any country where they do not scald milk-pans, and swaddle the infants, and burn the brushwood, and broil the fish? What is true anywhere is true everywhere. And let him go where he will, he can only find so much beauty or worth as he carries.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson book The Conduct of Life

The Conduct of Life, Chapter 4, “Culture,” p. 145

“Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson book The Conduct of Life

The Conduct of Life, Behaviour
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson book The Conduct of Life

The Conduct of Life, Behaviour
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“The manly part is to do with might and main what you can do.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson book The Conduct of Life

The Conduct of Life, Wealth
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men round to his opinion twenty years later.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson book The Conduct of Life

Culture http://books.google.com/books?id=uVYRAAAAYAAJ&q=&quot;The+measure+of+a+master+is+his+success+in+bringing+all+men+round+to+his+opinion+twenty+years+later&quot;&pg=PA157#v=onepage <br class="br">1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860)